When I went to visit the Imperial War Museum I was impressed by the way everything is very organized. The museum shows objects, uniforms, models, videos and pictures of things related to the war and it explains it form different points of view like, for example, the children way of living during that time, the holocaust,the war in the west and in the east and so on. They use especially lots of videos and projections to make people understand better what they see.
Imperial war museum from Laura pagano on Vimeo.
This is a video that I have done in the gallery called "The children's war". What caught my attention in this gallery is that the normal exhibition space is integreated with a reconstruction of a typical house in Britain during wartime. To go there is necessary to start from the first floor, go through the gallery, go through the shelter and then go down the stairs that leads you into the house. It is not possible to do the journey the other way round,starting from the ground floor, because the house is accessible only from the first floor. In this way the designer made a path, a journey to follow to understand better the story of the war viewed by the children, but also to create a better circulation inside the house which is very narrow and if people were coming from both downstairs and upstairs it would create difficulties for the people to go through and continue their journey.
